Simon of Cyrene

Simon of Cyrene was a Libyan man who was compelled by the Romans to carry Jesus' cross as he was taken to his crucifixion. Simon, a Cyrenian Jew, sympathetically helped a faltering Jesus to pick up his cross and helped him bear it towards Calvary. He later preached the Gospel to the Greeks as a Christian evangelist, and his sons Alexander and Rufus also became missionaries.